Versions and when things happened to them
(with some contradictions...)
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Director’s Cut |
Theatrical version |
Abraxas/Summerisle Film, “Final Cut”, middle version |
Unknown version |
Sometime between February and May 1973 |
Created |
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May 18, 1973 |
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Created from Director’s cut overnight by Eric Boyd-Perkins using list from Roger Corman |
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December 6, 1973 |
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Opens for test screenings at the Metropole Cinema in Victoria, London with Don't Look Now as a double bill. |
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Unknown date in 1973 |
Sent to distributors in US. Roger Corman gets 2 copies |
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January 1974 |
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Public showings |
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January 13, 1974 |
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A ”premiere” shown at the Regal Cinema, Stranraer and The Cinema, Newton Stewart, 3 pm. (And the Cally Palace Hotel, Gatehouse of Fleet, probably very close to this date.) |
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January 19, 1974 |
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plays at the Birmingham Odeon Queensway Cinema at 11.30pm. |
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January 20, 1974 |
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The Curzon Cinema, Eastbourne. Also the Sports Argus newspaper lists a showing in West Midlands, with Don’t Look Now |
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January 21, 1974 |
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standalone showing at Odeon Haymarket, London (Your Face Here book) |
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January 24, 1974 |
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Official opening at the Odeon Film Centre in Liverpool with Don't Look Now. |
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July 1974 |
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Plays Atlanta, GA, 7/1 Dept of Trade registration number BR/E 37199/13/1/7, British Lion Films, 86 min running time. |
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August 1974 |
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Plays Los Angeles and San Diego, CA |
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End of 1974, 1975 |
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Most UK theatrical showings are done. Some continue into 1975. |
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Sept 7, 1976 |
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John Alan Simon and Stirling Smith screen the film at the Robert E Lee Theater, New Orleans, just for themselves. (Hoping to distribute it.) |
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1977 |
Hardy makes color internegative of Director's Cut to create the Final Cut |
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Hardy makes color internegative of Director's Cut to create the Final Cut. It is lost later. |
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April, 1977 |
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Abraxas screens film for NY theater owners. The lab work for the restoration is not complete yet. "...the exact form of the film (has) yet to be ironed out by Hardy..." - Cinefantastique. |
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October 1-6, 1977 |
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Downtown World Theater, Minneapolis showings by Hemispshere Pictures. Abraxas is considering suing them for their "unauthorized distribution of the film." The print was an original Warner Brothers print provided for viewing purposes only when Hemisphere "expressed interest in bidding on certain territorial distribution rights." |
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November, 1977 |
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Jackson, Mississippi showings |
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November 18, 1977 |
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana showings start. Christopher Lee attends. |
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Sometime in 1978 |
Released onto VHS, Media Home Entertainment, (has damaged scene after Tolbooth) |
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Created |
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January 13, 1978 |
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Shreveport, Louisiana showings start |
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March 1978 |
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Stuart Byron, in Film Comment vol.14 no.2 (March 1978), writes: Abraxas "has only one print of the director-approved 102-minute* version working", the rest being the 86 minute version.*(102 being the 99 minute version.... see John Alan Simon’s explanation about times/lengths.) |
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Summer of 1978 |
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Summerisle press kit says restoration was done in NYC |
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Sept 1978 |
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First showing at Telluride Film Fest |
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Jan 3 and 4, 1979 |
Shown in San Francisco |
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Jan 6, 1979 |
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First commercial showing, San Francisco |
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Sometime between February and May. 1979 |
Churchill Films takes possession of videotape masters and original long-version print, neither is ever seen again. |
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March 16, 1979 |
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ATV Midlands, UK, first tv showing in UK |
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June, 1979 |
Simon gets brief access and gets VHS release of 102 min cut on Media Home Entertainment. |
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Summerisle Film is no more, JAS sues Weinberg and removes him. They handed back everything to Abraxas. John Alan Simon takes over. |
Group IV (released) films first theatrically, then on video, then on pay-cable, and only then on free broadcast television. (Brown) |
March 26, 1980 |
Slightly after this date, the director’s cut goes on WOR tv in NYC |
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NYC opening at the Paramount |
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1981 |
Magnum VHS release (has damaged scene after Tolbooth) |
UK VHS release |
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Dec 1981? |
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I see it on tv, WOR, NYC |
1988 |
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Movidedrome, First showing on UK tv |
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1993 |
US Cable premiere of any version? |
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June 26. 1993 |
London movie listing, Sky Movies Gold (satellite?) Director's Cut |
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May 27, 1996 |
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Sydney (AUS) review |
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April 20, 1998 |
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Melbourne (AUS) tv listing Optus channel (pay tv) 11:30 pm |
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January 15-17, 1999 |
Watched at 1st ever Wicker Man convention, at the Ellangowan |
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October 21, 1999 |
Falkirk (UK) Town Hall Cinema - Allan Brown shows the Director's Cut and approximately :45 of the Plockton home movie footage. |
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January 29, 2000 |
London showing PLUS behind the scenes footage! |
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May 3, 2000 |
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(NFT)/BFI, London showing |
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2000? 2001? |
Anchor Bay DVD (doesn’t have damaged scene after Tolbooth) |
Anchor Bay DVD |
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2013 |
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Harvard library copy is found, declared as Final Cut, gets restored (cleaned up, no edits made), comes out with theatrical showings and on DVD. |
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